Category: Local News
10
Aug
Downtown Environmental Interest Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford Local News Long Reads Municipal Parks
What’s Your Damage?
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Following a storm in July, one of the local news outlets — doesn’t matter which one — made a pronouncement of where damage was and...
04
Aug
Access Activism Clay Arsenal Commentary Design Hartford Local News Long Reads Reader Tip Transportation Upper Albany
Safe Streets Connecticut: July 2023
by Kerri Ana Provost
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By the end of July, drivers had killed 31 pedestrians and cyclists in Connecticut. That's about one preventable death every week.
30
Jul
Access Activism Commentary Community Cultural Interest Environmental Interest Food Free Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford History Local News Long Reads Progress Summer West End
Communitarian
by Kerri Ana Provost
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That’s the word Andrew May used to describe his philosophy, and I wanted to ask if it was something contagious. To be honest, it probably...
27
Jul
Access Commentary Design Environmental Interest Food Free Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford History Local News Long Reads Parks Summer
Abundance
by Kerri Ana Provost
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What’s happening over in Zion Hill Cemetery today is not unprecedented. In British Columbia, a cemetery grows vegetables to give to the community; they also...
23
Jul
Access Blue Hills Design Downtown Environmental Interest Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford Local News Long Reads Progress Transportation
Incoming!
by Kerri Ana Provost
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There's not one thing that needs to happen to get people to examine their dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuels. It's a whole rainbow of things...
16
Jul
Access Activism Commentary Environmental Interest Hartford Local News Long Reads Parks Regionalism Rivers Summer Transportation Volunteer
Après moi, le déluge
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It's not so bad here, standard spring flooding. Until you remember that this is July.
03
Jul
Access Activism Behind the Rocks Clay Arsenal Commentary Design Education Hartford Local News Long Reads Myth Busting Parkville Transportation
Safe Streets Connecticut: June 2023
by Kerri Ana Provost
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If I didn’t know better, I would believe that parking was the biggest problem facing some towns in Connecticut. West Hartford stalled its plans to...
11
Jun
Safe Streets Connecticut: May 2023
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The Vision Zero bill (HB 5917) is waiting for Gov. Lamont’s signature, and is a promising foot-in-the-door kind of legislation, even though it wound up...
14
May
Safe Streets Connecticut: April 2023
by Kerri Ana Provost
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In April, drivers killed five pedestrians on Connecticut's roads.
10
May
Access Activism Commentary Construction Design Downtown Environmental Interest Hartford Local News Long Reads Sheldon/Charter Oak South Green Transportation Unsolicited Advice
*NEW BIKE LANE ALERT*
by Kerri Ana Provost
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This is not a drill!